Kuala Lumpur International Marathon 2007

It was fun. The day before the marathon, I was still recovering from my eating disorder. The food I put into my mouth the day before is bowl of Cintan Mee for lunch and a plate of "Loh Mai Kai"(glutinous rice + chicken) for dinner.

I woke up at 4.00am to gather in school, as Mr Chia had arranged buses for us. A banana is all i ate that morning, and my brother was nice enough to wake up at 4.30am and fetch me to school. Monitored by Yong Meng, around 60+ of us arrived at Dataran Merdeka.

As we gear up for our 7km run, we could see Kenya runners sprinting back in their 42km full marathon. Their timing is like 2 hours+ ? What the hell man. 2 hours + for 42km. Respect. For comparison, we did our scout's 40km hike in 20 hours! haha.

The run seems endless as I passes through familiar attraction site of KL. Concorde Hotel, Berjaya Times Square, Pudu Jail and many more.

While running I was thinking,

"Haih I could never make it for a medal. Just finish the run will do."
"Running marathon is not what I do best. This should be my LAST time running long distance!"

To my surprise, I finished 94th. Haha. Every top 300 finisher will receive a medal. Most of us finished with a medal though. Ser Siang's run was the most memorable as he finished 299! If he was slightly slower, he might not receive the medal at all. Haha, good run Siang!

After running, we all had generous amount of MILO and 100PLUS =D. Probably over-dosage of Milo for me. Haha. To sum it up all, it was a really enjoyable!

All smiles right there!
Haha Ser Siang with his arm raised! You go winner!

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Most probably I would change my thoughts, and participate again next year in this annual event!

Absolutely enjoyable, doesn't matter if you're a professional/ sportsman/sportswoman/ amateur/ shopper/ social runner, you should take part too!

Tagged by Khy Li.

LAYER 1 : ON THE OUTSIDE

Name : Lum Meng Leong
Birth Date : 25/10/1990
Current Status : Single
Eye Colour : Dark Brown
Hair Colour : Black
Righty or Left : Right

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LAYER 2 : ON THE OUTSIDE

My Heritage : Er, old fashioned?
My Fears : Disappointing others.
My Weaknesses : Jealousy comes easily.
My Perfect Pizza : Thai Seafood! If possible with a cheese crust. Scrumptious.

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LAYER 3 : YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW

My Thoughts First Waking Up : Er, Brush my teeth?
My Bedtime : Depends, mostly after 12am.
My Most Missed Memory : Being together with someone and feeling loved.

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LAYER 4 : MY PICK

Pepsi or Coke : Coke.
McD or Burger King : McD
Single or Group Dates : Either one. As long as she's there, it's good enough.
Nike or Adidas : Nike
Tea or Nestea : Nestea
Chocolate or Vanilla : Chocolate
Cappucinno or Coffee : Cappucinno

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LAYER 5 : DO YOU...

Smoke : No
Curse : Occasionally
Shower : Yes
Have a Crush : I wonder.
Think you've been in love : A glimpse of it.
Go To School : Yes
Want To Get Married : Sure
Believe in Yourself : Yes.
Think you're a Health Freak : Kind of?

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LAYER 6 : IN THE PAST

Drank Alcohol : I hate to lie, Shandy contains alcohol.
Gone to the Mall : zzzz Yes.
Been on Stage : Of course.
Eaten Sushi : Yes
Dyed your Hair : Never.

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LAYER 7 : HAVE YOU EVER

Played a stripping game : Not Yet.
Change who you were to fit in : It happens constantly.

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LAYER 8 : AGE YOU'RE HOPING

To be married :Late 20s, Early 30s. Actually when I'm financially stable.

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LAYER 9 : IN A GIRL

Best Eye Colour : Any colour a human could possibly have.
Best Hair Colour : A slight copper brown colour!
Short Hair or Long Hair : Long. I love the idea of playing with a girl's hair.

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LAYER 10 : WHAT WERE YOU DOING...

A Minute Ago : Drank SHANDY.
Hour ago : Had my lunch.
4-5 hours ago : At
1 month ago : Running 4x100m in Stadium MPPJ.
Year ago : Moping.

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LAYER 11 : FINISH THE SENTENCES...

I love : the ones who loved me.
I feel : that I have plenty to do, tonnes to achieve.
I hate : porridge.
I hide : secrets.
I miss : THIAN HONG.
I need : a girlfriend.

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LAYER 5 : TAG 5 PEOPLE

• Kirsten
• Wei Guan
• Yi Ching
• Joyce Lim
• Or should this tagging thing stop?=p
  

Unwell

good things in life are hard to find - its not over/chris daughtry

Wednesday night, I was all so busy pushing my fellow 4x100m mates, Basil, Khairil to train on Thursday morning.

Khairil : Haiya lazy laa.
Basil : We DJians, no need to train one.

Well for Justin, I couldnt contact cause he was away the whole day to play computer game?And his handphone was stolen.

Actually they are eager to do well, so the bottom line is, the training on Thursday morning is on.

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Things didn't go my way though.

For dinner, I ate "siew kai", also known as roasted chicken. Those of you that know my bad eating habit, I also had a large amount of chillies. Before I sleep, I had a tummy upset. It was so bad, I didn't even touch the scrumptious supper that my dad bought. Even my sisters felt weird, as I usually wallop everything before they even get the chance to hold the chopstick.

So instead of joining the gang for supper, I decided to finish Terry's Trial Examination paper. When I'm only just half way through, my tummy ache so badly, I rub on some "Fong Yau" , the oilment with the sign on an arm holding an axe and went to bed right away. It was 1am then.

Around 2am, I couldn't stand it anymore, my body's telling me "Go to the toilet, you need to reject some of these stuffs in your alimentary canal." I throw up a large amount of "stuffs". Thought the pain's over, so I brushed my teeth again and go back to dreamland.

One hour later, the pain strikes again. I vomitted almost every single thing possible. I can feel some of the "rejected item" were around my chest and it was tough to get them out. Soon, I find myself coughing out a small amount of blood. Things got worst, I had loose motion. Once again I figured "man, this night sucks. it couldn't get worst."

At around 4am plus, my body proved me wrong again. I rushed to my washroom and start rejecting food out again, probably what's left in the previous "rejecting attempts". It felt like I'm going to vomit my gut out, seriously. The routine of coughing out blood happened again.

My body felt extremely cold, so instead of switching off the air-con to my brother's discomfort, I moved to an unoccupied room and slept there. I had Panadol before that because my head was aching.

I couldn't make it for softball training at 7.30am, my body didn't allow me to do so. My dad brought me to a clinic to be attended by a general doctor. Dr. Wong gave me tablets and pills, off we go cause I know I have to attend our 4x100m training after all the trouble of getting everyone together.

As I reached the school, I was motionless. But I'm telling my body, "Do it, do it". I never felt worst, as 3 rounds of jogging seems like the longest distance I ever jogged. Then when we do sprinting, again I felt like vomitting.

I couldn't help much but to lie down helplessly. Justin, Basil and Khairil were very understanding towards my difficulty, so we didn't do much. After forcing myself to do a few sprints, my body really couldn't take it anymore. So, we stopped.

I lay down on the cement pavement near the hall, like a dead corpse. My body was really feeling very, very uneasy. Basil was being an angel(angel, haha) by offering Justin and I a ride home. I felt so uneasy until I couldn't even direct Basil's mom the way to my house. Fortunately, Justin was there and he did the directing.

As soon as I reached home, I ran to the toilet and start vomitting. You must be guessing,

"Eh this Meng Leong, vomit vomit so many times, still got what to vomit out?"

To end your wild guess, I rejected PLAIN WATER, that I drank before I did sprinting.
WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH MY DAMN BODY=(.

I showered, and went straight to bed. Skipped Terry's tuition and dining at Lion Betti's house. My maid prepared "mee swa", but I was motionless, I couldn't even force myself up from the bed. Around 4pm, I finally got that tiny winy energy to move to that bowl of "mee swa" placed in my room. Guess what, it was attacked by ants. Great.

So I chose biscuits to be my lunch. I tried munching them by its not getting down. So I got Shandy to help my push the biscuits down my throat.

Well you only need half a brain to guess what I did next. If you have half a brain, I went back to bed again. Slept till 9pm, my maid prepared "mee swa" again for dinner=_=. zzzzzz.

I only have the appetite to finish half the bowl. And damn, I rushed to the toilet and rejected the "mee swa". ARGH. What the hell is in my body now? Just biscuits and Shandy?
Now I'm right, I've always thought Shandy is the Real Thing.

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The following day, I felt better, but not that good. So I forced myself to attend the Current/Past Board of Directors lunch, at Kim Gary.

I ordered Boiled Coke with Ginger, which I thought would be suitable for an unwell dude like me, but the taste of it is sooooooooooooooo bad. Kim Gary even serves other beverages such as...

"Milk with egg, Water with egg..."

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The idea of mixing water or milk with egg is like drinking the mixture of vinegar with additional lime juice? That's so wrong.
Mhmm I don't like waste money on stuffs I dislike, but if any of you find such drinks worth trying, tell me.

My mom, being old fashioned and superstitious, she figured my bad condition is due to "disturbance of spirits", rather than just food poisoning. So she made me drank talismanic water, hoping it would cure me.

Friday wasn't that bad, I stopped rejecting food:D.

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This morning I was asked by Cheeming to play for his team against Joshua's team. I mentioned I'm not feeling well but he insisted me to turn up. Both team have this little rivalry going on.

I thought I'm back fit, so I started running around. Then my body proved me wrong again>=(. I really really couldn't run. So I practically stood there and did nothing much. The kids did most of the job and the score was 2-2 by half time. My tummy got upset AGAIN, I couldn't stand it anymore so I went home. Plus, it was raining quite unforgivingly.

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Now, I'm just worried how am I gonna do in KL International Marathon tomorrow morning. Am I gonna run, and start vomitting? Or should I just walk? I want medaaaaaaal=(. But most likely won't be getting any medal tomorrow. Sigh.

To rub some salt on the wound, my MSSD 4x100m is on Monday. GREAT. Or the regular Dota players would say, "GG la."
Eh, in case things got worst, who wanna take my place as the third runner?

YongMeng?
KitWeng?
WeiKit?
Ethan?
Shafiq?

Did I mention I was in the choir?

This post is kinda overdue-d.

Around... mid January if I'm not mistaken, we got a little excited and enthusiastic about joining the choir. I was dragged by Miss Tomato aka Joanne Chong to participate, and the choir was like the most happening thing around the first month of schooling.

For the very first hurdle, our school was given the call to perform in conjunction of the launching of The Blueprint, The Ninth Malaysian Plan by the Ministry of Education.

You know, we get perform in front of the Prime Minister, VVIPs, and many more. Its kinda huge, so Pn Cecilia gave her stimulating talks, that scared the nerves of most of us, or maybe everyone? She mentioned a whole lot of pressure is on her, to make sure everything goes well and nothing heading out of track.

She's so strict and possessive on us, none of us dared to double-cross her when she speaks. There's once when she asked a question to a girl, that girl replied "Yeap" instead of the distinctive "Yes" Pn Cecilia wanted to hear. We all were programmed to reply her "yes" that day on, reminding us not to be too casual to her.

So the after several tough practices, we were geared up for the real thing. We were restricted from ice water, dairy products, food that contain lots of sugar that might provoke phlegm, spicy food and all. But if you're not aware, me to spicy food is like... a cow to grass? So I had no abstinence, and ate spicy food, but of course, I had less compared to my usual consumption.

The real thing happened at Putrajaya International Convention Centre.hmm that place, very nice.

the seats.

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The cafeteria there serves scrumptious food. We were given free meals etc. When we feel hungry, we visit the cafeteria which we thought would cost a hole in our wallet. However, we were utterly wrong as the teh ais was just... RM1 or RM1.20? Good food, cheap price, majestic surrounding, isn't that a good deal?

At the convention centre, it was truly a waiting game. In my opinion, we wasted far too much time. To kill the time and distinguish the guilt, Kit Weng and I do Terry's Add Maths tutorial questions together.

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omg, Clickfive?


omg omg. is this like, Clickfive x2?or is it Clickten?omg ahh.

the girls.*yawn*.

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This 60+ people choir group performed pretty well, or at least I thought so. Haha, funny moments with those EXTREMELY SENSITIVE voice picking mikes. After that, all we received was positive feedbacks. Hey, not bad for a part-timer/beginner/bathroom singer like me.=p


That's one big group right there.

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But now I quit from the choir already. Reason? I think I have pretty preoccupied and have strong commitments on other stuffs. So, yeah.

Oh its holiday by the way. Why don't I feel the thrill of enjoying holiday like I used to?

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On a lighter note, I admire the passion of the 14 year old boys on creating team blog. Very catchy, with team manager, video trailer, fanclub, signing FUTSAL DEAL, haha its really cool.

There might be a possibility BoysFromBalau and infernofc? might be the current hottest blog among the form2s=b.

That futsal deal is something really new to me. Hmm who knows in the future, we need to sign a deal to get a girlfriend?

are you a Muse fan?

Q : What do you call a Malay Muse fan?
(Don't worry it's not a racist joke or whatsoever.)

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A : MUSELIM.

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k bye for now.

i belong to myself.

Rare update. I just couldn't find the passion like I used to have working on this blog last time. I might not be as busy as a bee, but sorry to say, please don't expect many updates or whatsoever.

Right, Chinese New Year was nice, but not great.
Like I predicted, no ThianHong, no fun laaa.

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On the 24th Feb was Natalia's birthday. It took place at Riana Green and its a pool party. Guess who I saw there?

Marion Caunter!
In a dark pink spaghetti top with shorts!
woohoo.
Haha, SerSiang thought she was some girl attending Nat's party=p.
damn, she's gorgeous.

Later on, Sonia saw HANNAH TAN.

I mean like, what the hell, I don't mind camping there to wait for them to pass by again! Who wants to join me?

SerSiang, Dina and I felt a bit out of place but HengJoon is lifeless and lame enough to entertain us, haha.

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Lately, I participated in MSSD zon track and field and I took part in 4x400m and 4x100m.
We did badly for 4x400m, we got 5th.
Justin's the first runner, we thought he could give us a lead but no, he was d 5th to arrive and me, YongMeng and Eugene couldnt do much to catch up with the runners ahead.

Well for 4x100m, we got 1st in our saringan.
In the finals, the baton passing between me and Khairil wasnt perfect and we got 4th.
For the coming MSSD, we have no choice but to train much harder.

The girls, YiChing, Liwei, Sofia and gang did pretty well and proceed to MSSD.

damn, off to revise.